Podcasts about big mind process

The Season 2 finale of "Welcome to Channeling" is a remarkable celebration of the podcast's journey, highlighting the profound experiences and transformative conversations from the past season. Hosted by Gwen Juvenal, the episode features a deep dive into the connections and energies that shaped the series, with a roundtable discussion including Grace Bjarnson and Sandy Song Joy.Connect With Gwen Juvenal and Receive a Free Soul Play Experience Here:Linktr.ee/gwenjuvenalConnect With Sandy Song Joy Here:https://www.youtube.com/@sandeerah8888Connect with Grace Bjarnson Here:https://hot-muffin-media.com/ Gwen begins the episode by inviting the guides and cosmic energies that have been pivotal throughout the season. This practice sets a tone of reverence and spiritual connection, creating a space for reflecting on the divine experiences shared with the podcast's guests. She shares the practice of reaching her hands forward and inviting her guests to reach in and create a synergy through their aligned higher selves, showing the audience the powerful experience and energy that ignites the three together.Guest Highlights:Ashley Brothers:Journey: Ashley's episode is profoundly moving, as she shares her struggles with childhood abuse and her journey towards self-worth and healing.Impactful Moment: Gwen plays a clip where Ashley speaks about denouncing parts of herself due to feeling unworthy and how this led to a transformative journey of self-discovery and empowerment.Significant Quote: "Unwavering commitment to your vision."Tom Paladino:Focus: Tom's discussion on scalar energy and its implications on personal power and universal connection was particularly enlightening.Personal Experience: Gwen shares her positive experiences with Tom's scalar light sessions, highlighting the educational value of his daily updates on metaphysical topics.Katara Sky:Contribution: Katara's episode is celebrated for its immersive experience, guiding listeners through shamanic practices and helping them connect with their spiritual names and wellness.Memorable Moment: Gwen plays a clip where Katara assists her in embracing her Buddhist name, showcasing the depth of the spiritual journey shared.Other Guests Mentioned:Nikki StarCat ShieldsQuorra JaamKristi AvalonClaudia MilliganLeela RoseCat GollataGwen shares never-before-seen footage of her with Leela Rose and a blooper that occurred during recording with Quorra Jaam. She discusses using the tool of The Big Mind Process to open up Kristi Avalon, speak to the inner “Bad Boy,” and find the benefits of its existence in her life. They talk about the importance of alchemizing aspects that have been rejected and introduce two new entities that Gwen is starting to channel, Zeb and Anna of the Annunaki. All hosts encourage listeners to seek assistance if they feel overwhelmed, emphasizing the understanding that individuals are always much larger than a particular aspect they allow to voice or come forward.Themes:The finale emphasizes themes such as connection, authenticity, expansion, and transformation. Each guest brought unique insights and experiences that contributed to a richer understanding of the spiritual and metaphysical realms. The roundtable discussion highlighted the hosts' favorite moments and the profound impact of each guest's journey.Reflections:Gwen, Grace, and Sandy reflect on the highlights of the season, sharing personal anecdotes and the energetic shifts they experienced. They honor the contributions of all guests and express gratitude for the guidance and support received throughout the season.Popular Hashtags:#WelcomeToChanneling #SpiritualJourney #DivineConnection #ScalarEnergy #ShamanicHealing #TransformativePower #MetaphysicalInsights #PodcastFinale #SpiritualGuides #EnergyHealingSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/welcome-to-channeling/exclusive-content

"I Love Me a Good Bad Boy!" is one of Kristi Avalon's favorite sentiments! In this episode of “Welcome To Channeling,” Gwen Juvenal and Kristi Avalon, a renowned romance writer, delve into the question of why Bad Boys are so alluring and what benefits they provide for us. Both discuss Kristi's voyage of self-discovery, empowerment, and the themes encapsulated in her latest work, "The Billionaires Dare." Reflecting on their first Bad Boy crushes from movies and literature, including iconic figures like Han Solo and Indiana Jones, River Phoenix, and Satan from "Paradise Lost," they explore the allure and complexity of the Bad Boy archetype. Utilizing the innovative Big Mind Process, they give voice to this archetype, allowing for deeper introspection and understanding.Throughout the discussion, Kristi's internal struggle between societal expectations and her authentic self, represented by the Controller and the Good Girl persona, unfolds. By embracing the Bad Boy archetype in her writing, Kristi champions self-confidence, boundary-setting, and rebellion against societal norms. The Controller serves as a conduit for Kristi's interaction with her inner Bad Boy, empowering her to reject conformity, embark on solo adventures, and nurture her personal growth and independence.The podcast culminates in a transformative channeling session led by Gwen, where spiritual guides offer profound insights and reflections on love and self-expression. Encouraging listeners to honor their true selves and cultivate meaningful connections, the session underscores the transformative potential of embracing the shadows in order to experience true wholeness.Key Points:Kristi's journey of self-expression and empowerment is intertwined with her exploration of the Bad Boy archetype, allowing her to challenge societal norms and express her authenticity through her writing.The Controller symbolizes Kristi's adherence to societal expectations, while the Bad Boy archetype embodies rebellion, self-confidence, and boundary-setting, facilitating Kristi's personal growth and independence.Through the innovative Big Mind Process, Kristi navigates the complexities of her internal dialogue, fostering a deeper understanding of her desires and motivations.The channeling session offers profound insights from spiritual guides, emphasizing the transformative power of love and self-expression within the framework of the Big Mind Process.Find Kristi Here: https://kristiavalon.com/#RomanceWriter #SelfExploration #Empowerment #TheBillionairesDare #GoodGirl #InnerVoice #Authenticity #SocietalNorms #Boundaries #EmbracingIdentity #BadBoy #SelfExpression #PersonalGrowth #SpiritualGuidance #BigMindProcess #Channeling #Romance #WelcomeToChanneling #Podcast #GwenJuvenal #KristiAvalon #RomanceNovel #BigMind Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/welcome-to-channeling/exclusive-content

“I know now that the rules of reality change by zip code.”In a conversation recorded nearly a year ago on September 27, 2019 (and now hilariously strange in light of months of pandemic quarantine), I speak with the ultra-talented, delightful, immediately relatable and immensely likable Colin Frangicetto — guitarist for the excellent band Circa Survive and solo project Psychic Babble, painter, writer, and podcaster — about what we’ve learned from our high-dose psychedelic experiences, from our extended and potentially crazy periods of constant synchronicity, and from traveling the world playing music and making art.This episode is a dual-show crossover in which we interview each other, and which also appears on Colin’s wonderful podcast, The Cosmic Nod. Pop over there if you want to read all the nice things he said about me in his show notes. I agree with him that on this call you hear our friendship being born...Be sure to follow Colin’s Instagram & Twitter accounts, and support him on Patreon, and support Circa Survive on Patreon.And of course, please consider supporting Future Fossils and all of the other creative work I do (which is A LOT) on Patreon also. With three jobs and a kid, it’s a miracle this show still exists, entirely by the graces of listeners like (and deliciously unlike) you.It’s even more of a miracle that we have such an excellent community flourishing around it…here’s an invite to our Discord server, if you’d like to be a part of that.SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! Colin and I are going to be speaking together at this weekend’s Psilocybin Summit — along with folks like Paul Stamets, Shane Mauss, Dennis McKenna, Bett Williams, Bia Labate, Simon Yugler, and about 50 other amazing brilliant people. Go here to grab your tickets and I’ll get a tiny slice of the pie.Also, the entire back catalog of Future Fossils will soon have searchable transcriptions courtesy of podscribe.ai. If you’re a podcaster, I cannot recommend or even imagine a better service for your transcripts. Go tell Pete Birsinger I sent you and make your life a little easier.TOPICS COLIN AND I DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:His recent maiden voyage with ayahuasca and his integration at home.The indoor trip versus the outdoor trip and life at home versus life on the road, and the experience of time on tour versus at home.How life in the early 21st Century is like The Book of Exodus and the nonlinear path of the Wandering Jew, faith-tested in the wilderness.What relatively rare artist-and-musicians have in common…and why “everybody hates Bo Jackson.”What it means to be an obligate social organism, totally dependent on society, trending evolutionarily in the direction of both gods and babies, and what that means for finding ourselves in collaboration, generally.The post-career world, and in what ways we have to be a different state of matter than our parents’ generation.When magic becomes commonplace and matter-of-fact.Psychedelics and time: telepathy, or precognition?Transcendental cephalopods: WHY IS THAT A THING?Time loops and Chapel Perilous synchroncity vortices.Taking (or not taking) ayahuasca literally.How to learn how to love yourself.Big Mind Process and Internal Family Systems.Why is the self plural, in the first place?How to deal with the weird and sometimes scary things you accidentally create, responsibly.Cancer treatment vs. crime and punishment.Relationships as covenants between complementary strengths and weaknesses in partner organisms that do not share the same worldspace, and how that results in hilarious disagreements about UFOs.Breaking the tentacles of co-dependency with psychedelic solo work.Multiple-timescale creative project bouquets.Aaaand snapping turtles.LIST OF AMAZING (AND AMAZINGLY WHITE) PEOPLE WE MENTION:The Ungoogleable MichaelangeloSean-Paul Von AnckenShane MaussErik DavisPapadosioWilliam Irwin ThompsonDuncan TrussellErick GodseyMichael PhillipCory AllenJohn KaagRobin ArnottTopher SipesWeird Studies PodcastMark PesceMitch MignanoSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/FUTURE-FOSSILS. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dennis Paul Merzel, also known as Genpo Roshi, is a Zen teacher and Priest in both the Soto and Rinzai schools of Zen Buddhism, Abbot of Kanzeon Inc. since 1988, and creator of the Big Mind Process in 1999.  Since his initial awakening in 1971 his purpose and his passion have remained the same: to assist others to realize their true nature and to continuously deepen his own practice as well as assisting others in carefully reflecting on this life and clarifying the Way. In 1999 Roshi created the Big Mind Process™, also known as Big Mind/Big Heart, which philosopher Ken Wilber has called “arguably the most important and original discovery in the last two centuries of Buddhism.” It has broadened and enriched not only the teaching of Zen but spiritual practices in other traditions as well, enabling thousands of people from all walks of life and religious backgrounds to have an  awakening with little or no prior consciousness study. Roshi continues to train people to bring the Big Mind process and Big Heart Zen out into the world, and remains deeply committed to their ongoing evolution. Genpo Roshi has seventeen Dharma heirs and has conferred the title of Zen Master on nine Zen teachers. He has given Jukai (receiving the Zen Buddhist Precepts and becoming a Buddhist) to 518 students and ordained 138 Priests. His publications include The Eye Never Sleeps, Beyond Sanity and Madness, 24/7 Dharma, and The Path of The Human Being, a novel entitled The Fool Who Thought He Was God, and many DVDs. His book Big Mind/Big Heart: Finding Your Way, has been published in fourteen other languages: Dutch Spanish, German, Russian, Polish, French, Italian, Hungarian, Croatian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Danish, Korean and Chinese. His latest book, Spitting Out the Bones, A Zen Master’s 45 Year Journey, was published in 2016. For further information about registering for or organizing an event, contact his personal assistant Mary Ellen Sloan by e-mail: Maryellen@bigmind.org or 801-503-5656. You can listen to or download several live internet radio broadcasts of interviews with Genpo Roshi. For links, see the listings HERE. It turns out the better deal for a GIVE AWAY is 3 volumes of Genpo Roshi's Big Mind DVD's you only pay for the cost of shipping to you! Here is the offer You Tube OptionDownload.

Dennis Paul Merzel, also known as Genpo Roshi, is a Zen teacher and Priest in both the Soto and Rinzai schools of Zen Buddhism, Abbot of Kanzeon Inc. since 1988, and creator of the Big Mind Process in 1999.  Since his initial awakening in 1971 his purpose and his passion have remained the same: to assist others to realize their true nature and to continuously deepen his own practice as well as assisting others in carefully reflecting on this life and clarifying the Way. In 1999 Roshi created the Big Mind Process™, also known as Big Mind/Big Heart, which philosopher Ken Wilber has called “arguably the most important and original discovery in the last two centuries of Buddhism.” It has broadened and enriched not only the teaching of Zen but spiritual practices in other traditions as well, enabling thousands of people from all walks of life and religious backgrounds to have an  awakening with little or no prior consciousness study. Roshi continues to train people to bring the Big Mind process and Big Heart Zen out into the world, and remains deeply committed to their ongoing evolution. Genpo Roshi has seventeen Dharma heirs and has conferred the title of Zen Master on nine Zen teachers. He has given Jukai (receiving the Zen Buddhist Precepts and becoming a Buddhist) to 518 students and ordained 138 Priests. His publications include The Eye Never Sleeps, Beyond Sanity and Madness, 24/7 Dharma, and The Path of The Human Being, a novel entitled The Fool Who Thought He Was God, and many DVDs. His book Big Mind/Big Heart: Finding Your Way, has been published in fourteen other languages: Dutch Spanish, German, Russian, Polish, French, Italian, Hungarian, Croatian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Danish, Korean and Chinese. His latest book, Spitting Out the Bones, A Zen Master’s 45 Year Journey, was published in 2016. For further information about registering for or organizing an event, contact his personal assistant Mary Ellen Sloan by e-mail: Maryellen@bigmind.org or 801-503-5656. You can listen to or download several live internet radio broadcasts of interviews with Genpo Roshi. For links, see the listings HERE. It turns out the better deal for a GIVE AWAY is 3 volumes of Genpo Roshi's Big Mind DVD's you only pay for the cost of shipping to you! Here is the offer You Tube OptionDownload.

This week we go deep in part two of my epic four-hour conversation with documentarian and gonzo journalist Charles Shaw – one of this show’s most requested return guests.In part one, Charles laid out the map of the problem: a world in crisis, an age of epidemic trauma and addiction. In this episode, we get into his self-experimentation with sleep deprivation to understand the hallucinatory reality of America’s homeless, his journey of healing and recovery working with entheogens and military veterans, and how facing and embracing our darkness with humility and courage may be the only way we can prepare ourselves to make a meaningful contribution to our world. Get ready for a heady brew of grit, dark humor, grief and relief, and the luminous truth that awaits us on the other side of suffering…Support these vital conversations with a small monthly contribution:http://patreon.com/michaelgarfieldSubscribe on Apple Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify • iHeart RadioJoin our Facebook Discussion Group––––––––––––––––Part One:https://www.patreon.com/posts/16862172Charles on Youtube & Vimeo:https://www.youtube.com/user/UnheardVoicesArchivehttps://vimeo.com/nomadcinema“Meeting The Self You Aren’t,” excerpts from my talks with Charles on the 2010 Light & Shadow Tour:https://evolution.bandcamp.com/album/meeting-the-self-you-arentIn October and November 2010, I traveled to thirty cities across the United States with journalist and documentary film-maker Charles Shaw on what we called "The Light & Shadow Tour." Half our time was spent filming interviews for his documentary about the War on Drugs and prison industrial complex; half our time was spent engaging audiences in deep discussion on the role of what psychologists call "the shadow" in personal and cultural transformation. The shadow is the part of ourselves so profoundly disowned that it shows up not as a quality of the self, but a trait of other people - not a choice that we are making, but a fate that imposes itself upon us. And to whatever degree we continue to refuse acknowledgment of our shadows, we remain the desperate victims of life instead of its joyous collaborators. It isn't easy to write a new story of the self - and to constantly re-write that story, when new truths come to us in the form of disarming companions, rude awakenings, and other surprises. But it is the work set out before us, if we are to live as whole people and give the most of ourselves to the birthing of a new and better world.––––––––––––––––IN THIS EPISODE WE DISCUSS:- How seeking validation for his work made him miserable, but he moved through the crisis and the victimhood into a new sense of completeness;- How service to other people in the trauma and addiction healing process as an intake and integration facilitator at ibogaine clinics accelerated his own healing;- The puzzle of figuring out how to use psychedelics as part of the healing process for people with diagnosed mental disorders, for whom the action of psychedelics is still poorly understood;- The homelessness and drug addiction situation in San Francisco, a city in crisis and an “open-air asylum”;- How he took a personal journey into the insanity and delusional states of America’s growing homeless population through a gonzo journalist’s approach of firsthand speed use and sleep deprivation (up to nine days at a time, under clinical supervision);- What he learned from three years of intense work with entheogens about the experience of death and the emotional process of moving through epochal transitions;- Hanging out with the “shadow people,” the characteristic hallucinations that externalize our own repressed internal voices when we start to lose our minds;- Our resistance to treatment and medicine, because keeping things the way they are is easier, because healing is an ordeal that challenges our identities;- Getting to the heart of the inquiry of “Why am I doing what I’m doing, here?” and “What do I WANT?”- What it is to lose touch with the young and hungry, eager and determined artist that we used to be and then to find it in a painful retrospective, and to realize it was because we were out there seeking validation, hustling, instead of giving our lives to the work;- Is the conversation to identify the problem, or to critique by creating and move toward solutions?- How do we even TRY and turn the global conversation toward concerted action for positive and universal (planetoid) change?- We manage to sneak some Blade Runner 2049 in there…- Aging and growing older in our culture, which nobody wants to talk about;- A Luke Skywalker-esque critique of now-institutional festival culture;- The Pluto Transit (!!!);- Hungry Ghosts;- Going into the heart of darkness with veterans on ayahuasca and understanding what teamwork can do for psychedelic healing;- His dialogue with ayahuasca about visiting his late sister in the underworld, and how he found his peace with her passing;- Dodging the psychedelic messiah complex;- The astrology of Jesus and Piscean martyrdom;- How study of the archetypes inform our passage through the phases of our lives;- The truth about how being a prophet is a difficult, unappreciated act, not this glamorous role we imagine it to be;- How his film The Plastic People, on Tijuana and the deportation crisis, led to sweeping reforms in Mexico and pissed off countless Trump supporters on Netflix;- The challenges of documenting the secret history of the ibogaine underground;- The futility of protest in the postmodern information warfare landscape;- What Charles thinks was REALLY going on at Standing Rock, and how it’s related to the infiltration and disruption of the Women’s Movement;- How the government collects and processes intelligence on protesters and other political dissidents;- Can you have fun and still effect social change?- How learning the surprising hidden story of his own family changed how Charles thinks about identity and the human condition;- Big Mind Process and listening to the voice of “The Damaged Self”;- And more!––––––––––––––––CHARLES QUOTES:“I thought I was doing the right thing the whole time. I thought I was fighting the good fight. But at some point, you have to ask yourself why you keep ending up in the same situations.”“We are way too liberal with our use of the word ‘insane’ in our culture. Most of what people call insane is just plain suffering. End of story.”“Power is power for a reason. You want to take that shit on firsthand, you’re going to get hurt. A lot of young people don’t realize that.”“Healing’s an ordeal, and that’s the thing: most people check out too early. They actually make a decision on some level to just rather live their lives in dysfunction and unhappiness and keep repeating patterns and cycles rather than go through it, and go through the ordeal… Healing Land requires a stay in Shadow Land. If you want to heal, you gotta go through Shadow Land first.”[With homeless delusional behavior] “The drugs aren’t the problem, it’s the lack of sleep.”“Hoffman tested the acid, Shulgin tested the MDMA, I tested the insanity.”“Even Elon Musk cannot save the world, and frankly, I don’t think he’s a very palatable human being to begin with, but people love him and he’s kind of a sacred cow and you can’t criticism him, but I say ALL these billionaires are shifty and you can’t trust any of them.”“I’m not very good at killing myself. I should probably STOP.”“I don’t have to know how to do it right to know you are doing it wrong.”“Being a prophet means you’re never going to experience the things other people experience in life…it means you’re going to be alone and your whole existence is defined by your alienation from the status quo. But if you can accept it…”“Anybody who thinks there aren’t informants in the Native American community does NOT know the history of the Native American community.”“What is healing all about? So much of it is about accepting shit you can’t control.”“I’m not saying I’m better than anyone. I’m unique. I serve a unique function. And right now my unique function is to try to make the people that are the least understood in our culture more understood. I can do that. And I’ve sacrificed everything – my life, my body, a family, stability, everything – in pursuit of this, now across my fifth platform, the fifth group of despised subcultures. And I’m just going to keep going until we get to all of them. I may put the brakes on when we get to pedophiles – I’m not sure I can make an argument for that – but I study the people that do. Because it’s all about compassion. It is ALL about learning compassion.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The purpose of life? To be happy of course! In this enlightening episode of Bulletproof Radio you will hear how if you want to perform better as a human being... And you're unhappy all the time... You're doing it wrong!Buddhist Master Dennis Genpo Merzel, or Genpo Roshi, goes into his "Big Mind Process" that is hailed to be one of the greatest discoveries in spirituality in 200 years. The basis of his teachings: To simply be Happy!Plus, Dave Asprey talks about how as a young man, he thought it would take ten million dollars to make him happy... (When he already had six in the bank!)Enjoy the show!

The purpose of life? To be happy of course! In this enlightening episode of Bulletproof Radio you will hear how if you want to perform better as a human being... And you're unhappy all the time... You're doing it wrong!Buddhist Master Dennis Genpo Merzel, or Genpo Roshi, goes into his "Big Mind Process" that is hailed to be one of the greatest discoveries in spirituality in 200 years. The basis of his teachings: To simply be Happy!Plus, Dave Asprey talks about how as a young man, he thought it would take ten million dollars to make him happy... (When he already had six in the bank!)Enjoy the show!

This week’s guest is Sophia Rokhlin, whom I met in Portugal at Boom Festival 2016, and who just finished her Master’s of Ecological Economics in Barcelona last fall. Sophia’s currently at work on a number of cool projects, including The Environmental Justice Atlas – a database of environmental conflicts happening around the world. She’s also helping Daniel Pinchbeck write a book on ayahuasca and has worked at Kosmicare, a European psychedelic harm reduction project. http://ejatlas.orghttp://twitter.com/sophiarokhlin We Discuss: • How Spanish represents time differently than English • The politics and economics of Catalonian independence from Spain • How energy accounting, geography, history, and political ecology come together in the new field of Ecological Economics: the layer of material funds and flows behind what we think of as “the economy” – how much gold, how much sand, how much palm oil… • Her time in the Amazon studying plant medicines with the Sequoia tribe • “Flex crops” (used as a food, a fuel, and a feed) for more sustainable and resilience global agriculture • How can we properly account for all the ways our ecosystems support us without dangerously oversimplifying things? • The history (and problem) of using “ecosystem services” to quantify the economic value of nature • “Man-Age-Ment” • The Battle of Global Civilization: Technocrats vs. Mystics • And what of technoshamanism? Demetabolizing our environment. • Genpo Roshi’s Big Mind Process & voice dialogue in ego transcendence • The problem of locating yourself in a global environmental conflict without a clear front line…each of us is everywhere, so where do we stand? • Connecting and making kinship and natural rapport with elements in the global economy and learning how your life intersects with the planet-wide body of ______ (paper, palm oil, latex, etc.). • How studying economics can be like diéta, getting acquainted with something • Acting as a gateway to transcendence and altered states of consciousness • Sophia’s history of encounters with ayahuasca, and what led to the realization that shamanism is not her path • Balancing Big Picture thinking and intimacy, the social and personal, traditionally masculine and feminine modes of being • Overcoming the cognitive dissonance between the revelations of psychedelic experience and ecological defense of plant medicines • The hidden costs of regulating cannabis and other plant medicines • Her soft spot for “the clandestine economies of hackers, pirates, and shamans”…don’t create economic monocultures by commodifying everything you possibly can! • How psychedelics defy commodification – and why that’s a good thing • Ontological anarchism and the silliness of trying to impose structure onto the utterly uncontrollable mysterious reality of reality • Anarchism as a process • “To complete things is to uncomplete them.” • Unity and efficiency versus the counterclockwise heyoka medicine of necessarily contrary oppositeness • Can there even BE a counterculture in a planetary culture? • Idea Sex • Tamera Healing Biotope in Portugal and their model for Love Without Fear • Relationship Anarchy needs a community container; why polyamory can be more difficult in the city • The opposite of Tinder is having elders counsel us when we find someone in our community attractive • Feminine eldership, female guidance and leadership • Life Hack 101: Treat animals as gendered he’s and she’s instead of it’s, and you get better communication results. • The Noosphere eating the Biosphere • Jamming with nature and the importance of acoustic biodiversity • The fallacy of conservation biology and the cult of wilderness • If we really want to Make America Great Again, we’re going to need some mammoths! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / SpotifyJoin the Facebook Discussion GroupSupport this show and get cool stuff! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Genpo Roshi is a Zen Master and Creator of the Big-Mind Process.The Big Mind process comes out of both Western psychotherapy and the Eastern Zen tradition, a twenty-six hundred year old teaching of self-realisation. The Big Mind technique is a powerful and rapid way to help a person shift perspective and realize the wisdom and compassion that is within us all. I had a powerful and honest conversation with the great Genpo Roshi here in Mallorca, which I am very happy to be able to share with you. The conversation revolves around his 45 year journey as well as the personal events, which led to his fall in 2011.Topics of the conversations include:5:00 Spontaneous enlightenment, his beginnings30:00: Being a Zen Master now an then40:oo Dropping the identification with Zen45:00 Falling into the Abyss (2007)50:00 5 Years of integration work1h:00 Guilt vs Innocence1h:15 We have to fail1h:25 the great inner architect1h:30 Big Mind Big Heart

*Long Election Intro Alert* Come hang out in the fledgling Synchronicity Facebook Community. A community for cool people by cool people.   Genpo Roshi stops by Synchronicity. Dennis Paul Merzel, also known as Genpo Roshi, is a Zen Priest, a teacher in both the Soto and Rinzai schools of Zen Buddhism, Abbot of Kanzeon since 1988, and creator of the Big Mind Process in 1999. From his initial awakening in 1971 his purpose and his passion have remained the same: to assist others to realize their true nature and to continuously deepen his own practice as well as assisting others in carefully reflecting on this life and clarifying the Way. He has a new book out now called Spitting Out the Bones: A Zen Master's 45 Year Journey Topics Discussed Zen Meditation The Monastic Life Not getting caught up in rituals N0-Self Experiences Non-experience Becoming a non-returner The Bodhisattva Vow

In this episode, taken from the Buddhist Geeks Conference in 2011, Diane Hamilton explores Enlightenment, not as a binary state, but from a developmental point of view, as ever-expanding identification. Hamilton explains, and then demonstrates through the Big Mind Process, the value of taking on the perspective of others to help resolve disputes and come to greater understanding of human development. Episode Links: www.dianemushohamilton.com The Most Fundamental Duality ( http://bit.ly/1S1brVD )

Genpo is a long-time Zen practitioner, now Master, who has developed the “Big Mind Process”, through which "Novice participants without any formal meditation training can have profound spiritual experiences with persistent enhancement of well-being..." Summary and transcript of this interview Interview recorded 1/10/2011. YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Zen Master Genpo Mersal 00:02:56 - The Role of Zen and Buddhism in My Life 00:05:18 - The Journey of Consciousness 00:07:01 - Throwing Our Backs Into Awakening the Planet 00:08:47 - Becoming a Zen Master 00:10:47 - The Growth and Maturity of Zen Masters and Roshis 00:12:53 - Total Freedom and Empowering Others 00:15:13 - Enlightenment and Liberation 00:17:34 - The Journey up the Mountain 00:20:03 - Falling from Enlightenment: Returning to the Marketplace 00:22:26 - Indulging in Shadows 00:24:39 - Reintegrating the Shadows around the Marketplace 00:27:07 - The Importance of Working with the Shadow 00:29:20 - Enlightenment and the Ignorance of Cause and Effect 00:31:21 - Stuck at Level 3 00:33:18 - A Profound Experience and Its Impact 00:35:05 - Meaninglessness and Awakening 00:36:51 - The Impact of a High School Teacher 00:38:31 - A Journey to the Mountaintop 00:40:04 - Grizzly Bears in Waterton 00:41:38 - A Spiritual Corollary to the Adventure 00:43:56 - Profound Experiences in Zen Practice 00:47:00 - The Practice of Using Jealousy to Annihilate the Ego 00:49:21 - Dzogchen Practice and Visualizing the Worst Possible Scenario 00:52:14 - The Form in Teaching 00:54:43 - A Kundalini Experience and the Answer to the First Question 00:56:31 - Transformation into a 17-year-old girl 00:58:28 - Struggling with Feminine Energy 01:00:17 - The Integration of the Feminine Side 01:02:06 - The Desire to Lose Ego 01:03:47 - Vulnerability and an Unexpected Experience

Genpo is a long-time Zen practitioner, now Master, who has developed the “Big Mind Process”, through which "Novice participants without any formal meditation training can have profound spiritual experiences with persistent enhancement of well-being..." Interview recorded 1/10/2011. Audio and video below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

Mick Quinn is the best selling author of the major work on soul consciousness development, The Uncommon Path - Awakening Authentic Joy . Currently residing in Utah with his wife, Debora Prieto, this Irish-born author was the founder and CEO of several multimillion-dollar companies and is quoted regularly in many publications, including CNN Living, The Washington Times and The Wall Street Journal. He chose to give up his American Dream lifestyle in 2001, and studied Buddhism, Christianity, and the evolution of consciousness - all in search of discovering and expressing his eternal motives. Mick's life was radically transformed in the summer of 2001 while sitting in meditation with spiritual teacher, Andrew Cohen. As a result of this inner transformation, Mick left his former life behind and began to write and teach about the seed of great potential which rests with each one of us. He, along with his wife, Debora Prieto, who trained with Genpo Roshi in the Big Mind Process are currently leading a comprehensive consciousness course together. In addition, Mick and Debora offer joint and separate Integral Coaching programs to clients worldwide. Also as an evidence of Conscious Service Mick and Debora do social work in the slums of Guatemala, bringing light to those who need it the most, aplying and sharing all the knowledge and insights they had been gathering all over the years.

Mick Quinn is the best selling author of the major work on soul consciousness development, The Uncommon Path - Awakening Authentic Joy . Currently residing in Utah with his wife, Debora Prieto, this Irish-born author was the founder and CEO of several multimillion-dollar companies and is quoted regularly in many publications, including CNN Living, The Washington Times and The Wall Street Journal. He chose to give up his American Dream lifestyle in 2001, and studied Buddhism, Christianity, and the evolution of consciousness - all in search of discovering and expressing his eternal motives. Mick's life was radically transformed in the summer of 2001 while sitting in meditation with spiritual teacher, Andrew Cohen. As a result of this inner transformation, Mick left his former life behind and began to write and teach about the seed of great potential which rests with each one of us. He, along with his wife, Debora Prieto, who trained with Genpo Roshi in the Big Mind Process are currently leading a comprehensive consciousness course together. In addition, Mick and Debora offer joint and separate Integral Coaching programs to clients worldwide. Also as an evidence of Conscious Service Mick and Debora do social work in the slums of Guatemala, bringing light to those who need it the most, aplying and sharing all the knowledge and insights they had been gathering all over the years.

Mick Quinn is the best selling author of the major work on soul consciousness development, The Uncommon Path. Currently residing in Utah with his wife, Debora Prieto, this Irish-born author was the founder and CEO of several multimillion-dollar companies and is quoted regularly in many publications, including CNN Living, The Washington Times and The Wall Street Journal. He chose to give up his American Dream lifestyle in 2001, and studied Buddhism, Christianity, and the evolution of consciousness - all in search of discovering and expressing his eternal motives. Mick's life was radically transformed in the summer of 2001 while sitting in meditation with spiritual teacher, Andrew Cohen. As a result of this inner transformation, Mick left his former life behind and began to write and teach about the seed of great potential which rests with each one of us. He, along with his wife, Debora Prieto, who trained with Genpo Roshi in the Big Mind Process are currently leading a comprehensive consciousness course together. In addition, Mick and Debora offer joint and separate Integral Coaching programs to clients worldwide.

Currently residing in Utah with his wife, Debora Prieto, this Irish-born author was the founder and CEO of several multimillion-dollar companies and is quoted regularly in many publications, including CNN Living, The Washington Times and The Wall Street Journal. He chose to give up his American Dream lifestyle in 2001, and studied Buddhism, Christianity, and the evolution of consciousness - all in search of discovering and expressing his eternal motives. The Uncommon Path is the second book by Irish author, Mick Quinn. Mick's work was first published in Spanish as Poder Y Gracia, by Corona Borealis Publishing in the summer of 2007. Mick's life was radically transformed in the summer of 2001 while sitting in meditation with spiritual teacher, Andrew Cohen. As a result of this inner transformation, Mick left his former life behind and began to write and teach about the seed of great potential which rests with each one of us. Mick's work is touching the hearts, minds, and spirits of all those who come in contact with its direct, yet gentle message. An essential aspect of his teachings points to identifying and transcending concealed conditioning on the path of awakening. Mick is the founder of Choice for Enlightened Living Fellowship (CELF), a non-profit organization devoted to the discovery and expression of conscious values in daily life. He, along with his wife, Debora Prieto, who trained with Genpo Roshi in the Big Mind Process are currently leading a comprehensive consciousness course together. In addition, Mick and Debora offer joint and separate Integral Coaching programs to clients worldwide. Mick was the founder and CEO of several multimillion-dollar companies in New York City from 1994-2001. His work is regularly quoted and featured in many publications, including CNN Living, The Washington Times, ADD Magazine, Body & Mind Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.

Currently residing in Utah with his wife, Debora Prieto, this Irish-born author was the founder and CEO of several multimillion-dollar companies and is quoted regularly in many publications, including CNN Living, The Washington Times and The Wall Street Journal. He chose to give up his American Dream lifestyle in 2001, and studied Buddhism, Christianity, and the evolution of consciousness - all in search of discovering and expressing his eternal motives. The Uncommon Path is the second book by Irish author, Mick Quinn. Mick's work was first published in Spanish as Poder Y Gracia, by Corona Borealis Publishing in the summer of 2007. Mick's life was radically transformed in the summer of 2001 while sitting in meditation with spiritual teacher, Andrew Cohen. As a result of this inner transformation, Mick left his former life behind and began to write and teach about the seed of great potential which rests with each one of us. Mick's work is touching the hearts, minds, and spirits of all those who come in contact with its direct, yet gentle message. An essential aspect of his teachings points to identifying and transcending concealed conditioning on the path of awakening. Mick is the founder of Choice for Enlightened Living Fellowship (CELF), a non-profit organization devoted to the discovery and expression of conscious values in daily life. He, along with his wife, Debora Prieto, who trained with Genpo Roshi in the Big Mind Process are currently leading a comprehensive consciousness course together. In addition, Mick and Debora offer joint and separate Integral Coaching programs to clients worldwide. Mick was the founder and CEO of several multimillion-dollar companies in New York City from 1994-2001. His work is regularly quoted and featured in many publications, including CNN Living, The Washington Times, ADD Magazine, Body & Mind Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.